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ASIN: 0060872985
Release Date: 2006-11-28 |
Book Description
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?
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We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.
We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.
Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.
The future is closer than you think.
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Welcome to our genetic world.
Fast, furious, and out of control.
This is not the world of the future--it's the world right now.
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime.
We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes. . . .
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.
The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.
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Interesting stuff...yet could be better.......2007-10-10
The book sets out with 5-6 different stories that seem unrelated. We all know they will come together at one point, which they do, only a bit late in the game. The story lines mix in the last 70 pages which leaves you with the feeling that this is a short story book.
The Crichton writing style is there for those of you who like it. The stories flow and are an easy read. The materials the book writes about are interesting and the author takes us to some scary scenarios in gene research, so if it is interesting to you, go ahead and get yourself a copy. In general, MC has written better.
The sum of all fears.......2007-10-10
Michael Crichton has made a career of tantalizing us with technology while preaching the potential for catastrophe. Unfortunately this book has no coherent plot. It is a hodge-podge of scenarios of genetic technology run amuck, based on reports that have appeared in the popular press over the last few years. An African grey parrot modeled on the recently deceased and much lamented Alex (who demonstrated that birds are more intelligent than previously suspected) carries on normal, if sulky, conversations. A talking orangutan swears at photographers. A scientist creates a chimpanzee-human hybrid using his own DNA. He brings the resulting animal home and treats it like son, even sending it to school. A company licenses a cell line derived from a patient cured of cancer. Since it feels it now owns his cells, it feels legally justified in sending a bounty hunter to collect cells from his daughter and grandson against their will. Presumably they share the same DNA and so the company owns their cells too. The book is not about the inconvenient difficulty of making any of these scenarios a reality, but about the social and legal implications of advances in biology. The fanciful vignettes illustrate absurdities in law and are calculated to push readers' buttons and play on their fears. So also the characters' annoying habit of saying things like: "This is definitely true..." or "This will never happen..." when the opposite is obvious. Some of this is pandering to the least educated type of reader who is unable to tell fact from fiction. The penultimate chapters read like pure farce. I am familiar with Michael Crichton's body of work and cannot imagine that he intends this as anything but satire. The after word, however, makes a cogent argument against the patenting of genes. As Crichton makes clear, it is a principle in law that our common heritage cannot be owned by any person. Facts of nature (gravity, light) and, in this case, genes cannot be owned.
ALMOST UNREADABLE.......2007-10-08
I'm sorry to say that I found this book almost unreadable. I stuck with it through to the end, however, and found, at last, some interest and amusment in the parrot named Gerard. Aside from that, there were too many characters and story lines, a great lack of sympathetic (or even antipathetic) character development, and no suspense or excitement at all. If anyone but Michael Crichton had sent this manuscript to a publisher,it would have been rejected.
OK but a little too cynical for my tastes.......2007-10-06
This is a spooky book in two ways:
- It highlights the dangers and potential abuses of genetic engineering.
- It paints humanity in about the worst light possible
Regarding the second point, I think it would have been hard for Mr. Crichton to have been more cynical in his character development. Thieves, back-stabbers, child molesters, adulterers - man, they're all in this book. And the positive characters? I think they are pretty much limited to a half-chimp/half-human boy (!) and a lawyer (!!).
For me, this overly-dark presentation of human nature took away from the message about genetic engineering. At the end of the book, I felt that it really doesn't matter if we do anything about genetic engineering or not - the human race is headed to hell in a handbasket anyway.
The other thing I kept thinking as I was reading was: Geez! Crichton needs to get out of L.A.! :)
One too many of everything.......2007-10-05
This book has:
Too many characters.
Overly plots.
Unbelievable laws.
Excessive tabloid postings.
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Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they authoritarian, democratic, or communist. Ong shows how East and Southeast Asian states are making exceptions to their usual practices of governing in order to position themselves to compete in the global economy. As she demonstrates, a variety of neoliberal strategies of governing are re-engineering political spaces and populations. Ong’s ethnographic case studies illuminate experiments and developments such as China’s creation of special market zones within its socialist economy; pro-capitalist Islam and women’s rights in Malaysia; Singapore’s repositioning as a hub of scientific expertise; and flexible labor and knowledge regimes that span the Pacific.
Ong traces how these and other neoliberal exceptions to business as usual are reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality. She argues that an interactive mode of citizenship is emerging, one that organizes peopleâand distributes rights and benefits to themâaccording to their marketable skills rather than according to their membership within nation-states. Those whose knowledge and skills are not assigned significant market valueâsuch as migrant women working as domestic maids in many Asian citiesâare denied citizenship. Nevertheless, Ong suggests that as the seam between sovereignty and citizenship is pried apart, a new space is emerging for NGOs to advocate for the human rights of those excluded by neoliberal measures of human worthiness.
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All living things are remarkably complex, yet their DNA is unstable, undergoing countless random mutations over generations. Despite this instability, most animals do not grow two heads or die, plants continue to thrive, and bacteria continue to divide. Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems tackles this perplexing paradox. The book explores why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness. Andreas Wagner looks at this problem from the ground up, starting with the alphabet of DNA, the genetic code, RNA, and protein molecules, moving on to genetic networks and embryonic development, and working his way up to whole organisms. He then develops an evolutionary explanation for robustness.
Wagner shows how evolution by natural selection preferentially finds and favors robust solutions to the problems organisms face in surviving and reproducing. Such robustness, he argues, also enhances the potential for future evolutionary innovation. Wagner also argues that robustness has less to do with organisms having plenty of spare parts (the redundancy theory that has been popular) and more to do with the reality that mutations can change organisms in ways that do not substantively affect their fitness.
Unparalleled in its field, this book offers the most detailed analysis available of all facets of robustness within organisms. It will appeal not only to biologists but also to engineers interested in the design of robust systems and to social scientists concerned with robustness in human communities and populations.
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Amateur hobbyist or professional breeder, this is a must have book. A comprehensive guide with chapters discussing the ball python in nature, captivity, diet, selection, understanding the ball python, health concerns, breeding and egg incubation, baby snake care, color morphs, and more. Over 100 different genetic morphs are illustrated and discussed. Over 300 full-color photographs. Hardcover w/ Dj. ISBN 9780971319704
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Best Ball Python book available.......2007-09-06
Considering a ball python? Already have one? Don't waste your time buying all those other 40 page throw away books, you can get all the info from those books straight off the web. This book is a text book. It's huge, it's got tons of pics, and it is well worth every cent. Everything you need to know is here. Buy it now. Do a little hunting around and you can also get an autographed version.
The Best of the Best-truly comprehensive.......2006-01-01
This is hands down the best guide on ball pythons in existence. I have recently built up a small crew of soon to be breeders (hets for piebald, hets for albino and a lemon pastel plus some normal females) and find the most essential aspect of husbandry is to be an informed "parent". I have purchased several books and this book is by far the most well rounded. The pictures are amazing, the text is straightforward, and the topics are diverse. The author includes a wonderful section on different morphs as well as pictures to match. This is essential for any keeper of ball pythons whether you have only 1 or 1000 snakes its definitely a must have!! You will need few books in addition to this one if you are a ball python breeder. Thankyou Kevin for writing such a fantastic book-well worth the money!!!
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The planet formerly known as Earth lies scorched and barren. Survivors live underground, ever on the defensive against rotters -- mindless corpses that troll the sweltering surface. A new menace has evolved, set on human annihilation.
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Just horrible.......2007-08-18
I had to force myself to finish it. For once, I was glad a book was short. I want those hours of my life back.
The story was OK, the writing never really moved the story along. I never cared about the characters.
World War Z and Dying to Live were great examples of zombie horror. This back does not pass muster at all.
Some strong points, but quite a superficial novel overall.......2007-08-07
In a bare, tough, life-deprived, post-apocalyptic world, small numbers of human beings try to sustain their miserable lives hidden underground. The enemy is everywhere: the weather, the temperature, the day and night cycles, the wandering "rotters". As the result of a succession of events, a small group of guardsmen find themselves cut away from their main base, in pursuit of a new haven. There, they will be facing numerous enemies, including a vicious new breed of zombies.
What I have liked-
* the idea of a super-zombie, the Necrosapien. This is a nice change from the usual dumb-minded, slow-moving living corpses. I don't think the author went far enough in developing the full potential of this dreadful enemy...
* the section describing Christian's turning out into a zombie. Although too short, the idea is good and hasn't, to my knowledge, been previously addressed. That was somewhat moving.
* the concept of the "interspecies mating". Terrifying, disgusting, but interesting, although not explored to its full potential.
* the world/environment of the story. A desolate, post-war world in which hope is like grass or life: much desired.
What I have not liked-
* Cain's death. Way too abrupt. Given the viciousness of the character, the reader would have expected a more gruesome "death".
* the total absence of any rational explanation for the war, the spread of the "disease", the glass lake, the human capability to have retained the technical and scientific knowledge of making the foil suits etc, etc.
* the lack of development in the things I have listed as good points above. Just to expand on one point: why would someone prepare at the same time the advent of zombies, including the Necrosapiens, and store so many means of getting read of them and restarting life all over again? Wasn't the initial war supposed to be total? How could the finders of the zombie apocalypse have predicted which environment the world would end up turning into? Lots of weaknesses in the rationale...
VERY NICE CHANGE FROM THE ORDINARY.......2007-07-18
I am a lover of zombie novels and this one did not disappoint me at all. From the first page to the last I was drawn into it and the book held me on edge all of the way through. Scott Johnson did an excellent job with his characters and I am anxious to read more from him.
living in a zombie wasteland.......2007-05-10
A zombie book that provides an excellent decription of what a scorched earth would be like after decades of battling with zombies. The author provides vivid details of how depressing earth would be along with its sad surviving population. I thought it put a new spin on the zombie genre to some degree. I also appreciated the brother and sister relationship which was one of the most endearing qualities about the book, since family (brother & sister, parent to child) relationship played a role in the plot development. Since earth is a wasteland all you have is the memories of your past family members and the few that are still living.
I was somewhat surprised by the ending since it left on an upbeat note. Though it made me smile to end so optimistcally. I am not sure all horror fans would appreciate the "happy ending." I believe if you like zombie books this is another good one.
Post Apocalyptic Zombies.......2007-05-05
Scott A Johnson's DEADLANDS is the kind of book that just plain demands to be made into a film. It rips along at a fast pace, offers up plenty of chills, and demonstrates at every turn that Johnson understand what 'action' really means. A fun and exciting book!
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- superb study of the human condition, apocalyptic variety
- A classic disaster novel - hardly dated after 50 years!
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The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
John Wyndham
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In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.
But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.
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Science fiction classic about dangerous plants who take over the world
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A classic piece of work!, .......2007-09-14
Not much I can add that others haven't.
This is an excellent book, which, because it deals with human nature, surely has to remain timeless.
In the aftermath of the comets, the loneliness of people who are literally left in the dark is tangible and help to make this novel remain in your mind long after you've finished reading it.
The part the triffids play in this chaos is remarkably easy to imagine, especially knowing the scientific research that is carried out now into genetic engineering. The triffids, although dangerous, are tolerated and managed because of their useful oil. If some degenerative diseases could be eradicated by cultivating a deadly plant...would we?
I really enjoyed the way Wyndham makes us think about human behaviour and how hard it is to unlearn. The ideas on what to tell future generations and the references to disasters in the ancient world I found really thought provoking.
Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Somehow, an astronomical event has caused the overwhelming majority of the population to become blind.
If that wasn't bad enough, mobile, dangerous plans called Triffids
are able to take advantage of the disdavantage. Without sight humans
are extremely vulnerable to these predators.
The narrator avoided blindness, by being in a hospital with bandaged eyes.
From there, we have an examination of this disaster scenario, and what would happen.
What if .........2007-08-20
I have read this book a number of times in the past 40 years. I've seen movies, and listened to the audiobook. This is one of the post-apocalyptic stories that has had the most impact on me.
It isn't so much the plausibility of mobile killer plants: it is the impact on 'civilised' society when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary. This novel can be read as social commentary or as science fiction. It doesn't rely on science or on technology for its impact. It relies on the reader's capacity to imagine a world where sightedness is rare and where danger is in the seemingly mundane.
Highly recommended.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
superb study of the human condition, apocalyptic variety.......2007-05-31
After having recently reviewed the film of 1961, I pulled this off the shelf and was utterly enthralled by the story and consistent mood. In contrast to the film, this is first-rate scifi, one in the genre where most of humanity is wiped out and a few individuals are left to deal with the aftermath.
Interestingly, the triffids are not alien, though their origin is mysterious, and rather than some monstrous transformation they move to fill an ecological niche that opens before them with the disaster that blinds most of humanity. However, they are just the backdrop to a wonderful exploration of human possibility and its limits, in the bizarre circumstnace that scifi allows. Indeed, there are entire chapters where they are barely mentioned. This is what the best scifi does, convincingly explores a path that is believable and leads to reflection on one's own circumstances.
You get few heroics and lots of struggle by normal people trying to survive, as they organize themselves into new groupings and institutions. Thus, the characters are extremely strong and well drawn, good enough for a realist novel. THen, there is the mystery of what happened: this is only speculated about with tantailising hints, and never definitively explained, which only strengthens the basic themes. Every detail adds to the story.
Warmly recommended.
A classic disaster novel - hardly dated after 50 years!.......2007-05-17
I first encountered "the Day of the Triffids" when I was ten years old - and can still read it with enjoyment at 59. For me that says it all.
Add to this that the book itself was seven years old when I read it, and its quality is brought home even more. Published in 1951, it is still believable in 2007, perhaps more credible now than when it was written. How many novels are there, sf or otherwise, of which this could be said?
The triffids of the title are a new breed of plant, produced by some unspecified means as a source of oil. The term "Genetically Engineered" was not known in the 50s, but would instantly spring to mind today. Despite their vicious sting, capable of blinding or even killing a man, and the fact they are carnivorous, they are no particular problem until a new disaster strikes. A meteor shower of incredible brilliance draws almost the whole population out at night to watch - and gives off harmful radiation which blinds all those who see it.
Bill Masen, temporarily blinded by a triffid sting, spends the crucial night in hospital with his eyes bandaged, and removes them the morning after to find a world gone blind (at least it seems to be the world. Were there no overcast skies anywhere that night? Never mind) and searches frantically for the handful of others who can see. Needless to say, his first "find" is female and about his own age
. They are faced with a terrible moral dilemma. Do they just clear off and leave the blind ones to (mostly) die? Or should the sighted stay to help the blind - and almost certainly end up dying with them? And of course not all, even among the sighted, are content to leave this to individual choice. There are those prepared to kidnap and enslave the sighted and force them into helping the blind - and equally those who see a not so brave new world with themselves as masters and the blind majority as serfs.
If all this weren't enough, the triffids are on the loose. With their deadly stings, they commit mayhem on the helpless blind humans, and soon develop into a major problem even for the sighted, who must search desperately for some refuge which can be defended against them. The rest of the novel is devoted to their finding one.
I have a few gripes here and there. Would the triffids really be much threat to sighted people, if the latter had sense enough to wear crash helmets, goggles and heavy coats? And where's the Navy? Did every submarine in the world surface to look at the meteors? I'd expect a sub or two to come moseying up the Thames before too long. Quibble, quibble, Mike.
And was that plague just a leetle bit too convenient? Masen is agonising about whether to stay with the blind party into whose service he was kidnapped and "drafted" when a germ or virus comes along and gets him off the hook by killing them all. Bit of a cop-out there?
I also feel that Wyndham made a mistake, later, in implying that the "comet" was a secret weapon that went wrong, and the meteors an official cover story. I don't trust government either, but this doesn't really fit the facts. Were it so, those in the know would surely have taken shelter, and ordered Army and police to do the same. Yet there's no sign whatever of this having happened. No mention of the Royal Family, Cabinet, or Armed Forces, who evidently all went out and got blinded along with the rest. Even for a British government, that's an improbable degree of stupidity. While fully sharing Wyndham's distrust of the Powers That Be, I feel we have to acquit them of this particular crime.
Finally, though appreciating how Wyndham liked his disasters "cosy" and localised, I'd have liked to see just a little more (either in this book or the sequel he never wrote) about how the world at large was getting on. Was everywhere as badly hit as England? Being plants, the triffids wouldn't fare too well in deserts, so Americans and Mexicans might hold out in the southwest, and the Moslems (Oh dear!) in N Africa and the Mideast, while the sighted Australians could retreat into their arid interior. Dry grasslands might also be unsuitable, and even if triffids could live there, a human would see them on the horizon long before they got near enough to detect him, so on steppes or prairies, or even in the Scottish highlands, human and triffid would generally meet only when the human wanted it. These, rather than the Isle of Wight, seem to me the "best hope of mankind".
But enough grousing. It's a really great novel, rivalling "Earth Abides" as the classic post disaster yarn. If you haven't read it, you are missing out big time!
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Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: The Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan
Yashodhara Dalmia , and
Salima Hashmi
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Increasingly, as boundaries are being dissolved and interactive realities are becoming evident, the cultures of India and Pakistan are beginning to draw attention. Within the larger exchange of music, cinema and other cultural forms, the contemporary art of the two countries in all its
vibrancy begins to have a fascinating new identity. There are many similarities that the art of the two countries share because of their common history. At the same time, divergences also lead to new directions that provide fodder for a cathartic regeneration. The book draws on three vital aspects
of contemporary Indian and Pakistani art: first, the historical development which began in colonial times and continued its diverse course in both countries after gaining independence. Second, the distinctive elements in contemporary art re-use their vital traditions, in the case of India, through
the incorporation of popular art and in the case of Pakistan, the reinvention of the miniature tradition. Third, is the dynamic and essential work of women artists of India and Pakistan.
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Directed Evolution Library Creation: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)
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Directed Enzyme Evolution: Screening and Selection Methods (Methods in Molecular Biology)
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A comprehensive compendium of cutting-edge protocols for the generation of molecular diversity. Described in step-by-step detail to ensure experimental success, these protocols include readily reproducible methods for random mutagenesis of entire genes or segments of genes, for homologous and nonhomologus recombination, and for constructing in vivo libraries in bacteria and yeast. In addition to the various protocols for creating libraries, this volume also describes ways to analyze libraries, particularly those made by recombination. An accompanying volume, Directed Enzyme Evolution: Screening and Selection Methods (ISBN: 1-58829-286-X), is devoted entirely to selection and screening methods that can be applied to the directed evolution of enzymes.
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Directed Evolution Library Creation: Methods and Protocols and Directed Enzyme Evolution: Screening and Selection Methods constitute an extraordinary collection of all the key methods used today for directed evolution research. Described in step-by-step detail to ensure robust experimental results, these methods will enable both newcomers and more experienced investigators to design and implement directed evolution strategies for the engineering of novel proteins. The first volume describes methods for the creation of mutated DNA molecules, or DNA libraries, encoding variants of desired proteins. The second volume describes methods for screening DNA libraries to isolate mutant proteins that exhibit a specified function.
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BradyGames' .hack Part 2: Mutation Official Strategy Guide provides a complete walkthrough to help gamers conquer every field and dungeon in "The World" with ease. Boss strategies to crush every boss with supreme fighting tactics. Dungeon maps pinpoint every item and Gott Statue. Comprehensive item trading list of every player character in the game. Bestiary stats for every enemy revealed! Equipment, item, and skills lists are also included.
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Lost book.......2005-10-01
I have not recieved this product yet, therefore I cannot review it yet.
Useful Information.......2003-06-18
Given that .hack//MUTATION is a fairly linear game of only moderate complexity, writing a strategy guide must be a special challenge. Many publishers would give into the temptation to fill the guide with great numbers of screen shots and side stories in an effort to make a collectors item out of what would otherwise be a thin effort. For some reason, BradyGames rarely gives into that temptation, and this guide is a classic example of providing all the needed information without burying it in glitz.
They provide a straightforward and complete walkthrough, plenty of information on side quests, and all the usual weapon and monster details. Maps are provided where needed, and, yes, there still is room for plenty of screen shots. They are especially good at detailing the moves necessary to deal with the game's deadly bosses. And grunty races as well - although nothing could save me from my inept reflexes.
I am not sure if a guide is necessary for playing .hack//MUTATION, but if you like them as I do, you will find that this guide delivers everything it should in useful form. There are two more of these still to come in the series though, so you may want to wait until you are legitimately stumped.
Do not buy this!.......2003-05-23
This guide is horrible! Okay, the walkthrough is decent, but who needs a walkthrough for this game? Seriously... this game is very straightforward. The best reason to get a guide for it is for weapon, item, and monster lists. This book is very incomplete. While there are at least a hundred new weapons and pieces of armor, this book only lists about fifteen. The monster lists are also very bad, many monsters are missing, and for the ones that ARE listed, the items they drop are not. Bradygames posted updated weapon/armor lists on their website, but they are still missing all of the rare weapons in the game as well as the monster info. A very rushed book, not worth your cash. You're better off just finding a FAQ online.
Book Description
The generation of mutant mice raises many questions about the best means of phenotypic analysis, breeding, and maintenance. The answers are now available from two experts with a wealth of detailed knowledge never previously assembled in one volume. Informal and highly practical, this handbook provides step-by-step methods for troubleshooting experiments, from the basics of gene targeting through the analysis of postnatal effects.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Overview.......2007-01-12
This text is an excellent addition to "Manipulating The Mouse Embryo". It has a step-by-step approach to breeding and characterizing genetically altered mouse lines. I recommend it for any investigator and especially for those working directly with such mice.
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